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Archery Throughout the Centuries

In the notorious armies of the early held tournaments to encourage and test
civilizations, good archers were great them for accuracy and precision. Soon
assets and were usually used as the first after, they would train shooting arrows
offense. Their arrows caused mass while riding horses. And at a certain
destruction on the battlefields and could age, they would proceed to join the
topple large numbers. Civilizations that army.On the battlefield, archers are
held archers in high regard in their faced with enemies from all sides. A
armies were the Greeks, the Persians, the technique where an archer shoots two
Parthian, the Chinese and the Indian arrows at one time would bring down the
armies. The famous phrase 'a parting enemy's defenses. One arrow is shot on a
shot' actually originates from the a high trajectory and the other at a lower
shooting style wherein the rider turns in trajectory thus hitting the target on two
the saddle to shoot as he and his horse different angles. In addition, the
rode away from the enemy. This shot is development of the bodkin point gave
called the 'Parthian shot.' Archers their arrows the ability to penetrate
often rode on horseback and combined deeper into the enemy's armor.Longbows
speed with close range like the require a lot of skill and training
mythological characters of Apollo and before being able to shoot an arrow and
Odysseus that are depicted using bows and hit a target. This training took a lot
arrows riding horses and chariots. Other of years. With the crossbow however,
archers are positioned in strategic anyone can shoot an arrow, although a
places of height increasing accuracy and little training is needed to hit a
effectiveness of the shot.In Medieval target. This and the fact that the
Europe, however, the archer's use in crossbow had the same penetrating power
battle was not as significant and and range of the longbow, made it useful
predominant as myth has it. In reality, in the early civilizations up to today.
bowmen were one of the lowest paid Unfortunately, it takes a significant
soldiers in the army and were often just amount of time to reload an arrow
trained peasants. The bow and arrow were compared to the longbow.In centuries
labeled as lower class weapons because after, the use of bows in the army became
they were cheap to make compared to the obsolete with the development of
very expensive armor and swords that clad firearms. Even when bows had a longer
men-at-arms. This low value made the bow range and could reload faster than the
a mere toy of the nobility and peasants first rifles, the penetrating power of a
as well. The Vikings, however, saw the bullet and the minimal training needed
prowess of archery and made it one of reigned supreme. In due time, guns and
their foremost weapons in their bullets would defeat the bow and arrow in
expeditions throughout Western Europe in range, accuracy, proficiency and in
the 9th and 10th centuries.Following this reload time. Because of archery's
example, the English had learned to decline in popularity, the 16th century
appreciate and hold in high regard the English monarch mandated that every man
power of the bow and arrow. In the of fighting age practice archery and
Hundred Years' War, the English deployed Henry VIII banned all sport except
huge numbers of archers using English archery during Sundays. Their efforts to
Longbows. This strategy gave them preserve this fighting style helped
tactical dominance. Seeing this much archery survive until the present day.
success, archers were soon recruited and In this day and age, archery is no longer
farming peasants started training since a weapon of war but a sport that is a
childhood. Each boy was given and true test of precision and accuracy.
trained with a bow of his height. They




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